Spam prevention in sl-form?

[trailsnail]

Hi Cory,

what are your experiences and opinions about antispam possibilities in sl-form? Is it possible to make sure on the client side that bots don't submit the form at all or what can I do to identify a bot-submit on the server side?

[claviska]

That's really up to the user, but I'd suspect that there will be less spam in general because:

• <sl-form> isn't a <form>
• There's no action attribute so there's no URL to harvest
• The form is serialized and submitted with JavaScript (this is an old post but the concept still appears to work fairly well)

Unless the bot has been trained specifically for Shoelace (unlikely) and is running JS (expensive), it's unlikely to figure out how to submit it without some other type of hint on the page.

[trailsnail]

Thank you. I was hoping you would say something like that. 😁
I wish you a good start into the week.

@staabm Would you update the PH team with the result, that there is nothing to do atm?

Thank you